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9/11’s Impact on Conservative Foreign Policy Little Has Changed, Preventive War Is Still Favored. Peter Juul shows that conservatives have advocated preventive war for 60 years, and that 9/11 ...
Subscribers get full access to Foreign Policy’s 50-year print archive. Excerpts have been lightly edited for space and clarity. The military component of containment would also be complicated to ...
In recent years, the concept of "containment" has made a surprising comeback in U.S. foreign policy circles, with strategists proposing a "New Containment" strategy aimed at Russia and China. This ...
While success is not guaranteed, a new containment policy offers the best chance to defend American interests in the twenty-first century. ... The foreign policy establishment favors a robust American ...
Containment was not particularly successful during the Cold War, and it is also unlikely to work well against China today. In reality, more than anything else, it was the Soviet Union’s own errors and ...
When Kennan proposed containment of the USSR in his famous “X” article in Foreign Affairs in 1947, he urged a robust response to Soviet aggression “designed to confront the Russians with ...
Rather than seeking regime overthrow in North Korea and Iran, Washington should pursue an updated version of Soviet-era containment policy, says expert Robert Litwak.
Wonder Land: Kabul’s conquerors hold the leverage in defining the terms of a postwar status quo. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly One of the most sweeping foreign-policy failures ...
{mosads}There are two pathways to containment. The one administration critics emphasize—that president Obama would somehow choose to “live with” a nuclear-armed Iran—is actually the least ...
Regarding Hal Brands’s “Containment Can Work Against China, Too” (Review, Dec. 4): The clear benefit of containment of the Soviet Union was a path to global stability, economic growth, trade ...
Sanctions may slow Iran’s nuclear drive but won’t halt it, says Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour, who calls for shifting to a containment policy that helps "expedite political transformation." ...
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang waves as he arrives for a press conference held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Tuesday, March 7, 2023.